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Boston 2024

SPECIAL FEATURE: RETURN TO DEWEY SQUARE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 30, 2016 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction, Specials

In 2011, thousands of New Englanders occupied an obscure slice of Boston and became leaders in a national movement against greed. Five years later, we asked some of those activists to reflect on their radical protest camp experiment.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction, Specials Tagged With: 2011, anniversary, Biddy Early's, BINJ, Boston, Boston 2024, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Dewey Square, intersectional politics, Occupy, Occupy Boston, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Protest, Return to Dewey, sink incident

A DEPARTURE: AFTER FOUR YEARS OF BLISTERING COLUMNS, A FREE RADICAL CHANGE

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted April 20, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical

I’m glad this column has allowed me to shine a light, however small, on the ills that plague the city. But we need more voices like mine, and more willingness to take risks.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical Tagged With: BINJ, Boston, Boston 2024, columns, criminal justice reform, Emily Hopkins, FOIA, gentrification, Journalism, the Marshall Project

THE GLOBE’S VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF BOSTON IS AS DEEPLY DISTURBING AS IT IS PROFOUNDLY UN-AMERICAN

Written by DIG STAFF Posted April 11, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm

What marks each of those dark episodes is a failure to fathom where an outlet’s vision leads, to carry rhetoric to its logical conclusion. This satirical interpolation attempts to do just that, to envision what Boston looks like with the Globe spinning rightward.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm Tagged With: 2016 Election, Boston 2024, Boston Globe, Donald Trump, General Electric, media

FREE RADICAL: BID FROM THE DEAD

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted August 13, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical

Despite a resounding “no” from the people of Boston, development remains a top-down process guided by the city’s elite

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical Tagged With: Boston 2024, BRA, development, gentrification, mayor Marty Walsh, Midtown, Widett Circle

END GAMES: PUT THIS IN YOUR BOSTON 2024 TIME CAPSULE AND CHOKE ON IT

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted July 28, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The mayor saved Bostonians from a Summer Games budget-fuck no more than someone who arranges for a kidnapping and then pays the ransom rescued a missing child.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston 2024, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, CommonWealth Magazine, Conor Yunits, construction, cost overruns, Howie Carr, International Olympic Committee, IOC, John Fish, mayor Marty Walsh, Steve Pagliuca, United States Olympic Committee, USOC, Widett Circle

GFY USOC: THE VERY BEST OF DIGBOSTON’S OLYMPIC TROLLING

Written by DIG STAFF Posted July 27, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

As the hipster paper of record in this town, we couldn’t be any happier to say, “We despised that band before they even dropped their first shitty single.”

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: atlanta, Boston, Boston 2024, Chris Faraone, criticism, DigBoston, Emily Hopkins, gentrification, host agreement, IOC, John Fish, Marty Walsh, No Boston Olympics, Olympics, Steve Pagliuca, USOC

EYES WIDETT SHUT: HOW THE CITY HOLDS THE KEYSTONE FOR BOSTON 2024’S OLYMPIC STADIUM PLANS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted July 14, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Menino hoped to keep the racks of ribs and crates of seafood fresh from the Atlantic overflowing in the heart of Boston forever.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 121A, Amtrak, Bob Kraft, Boston 2024, Boston Redevelopment Authority, BRA, City of Boston, food packing, John Fish, Marty Walsh, MBTA, New Boston Food Market, New England Patriots, Newmarket, Olympics, Shirley Kressel, tax breaks, Tom Menino, Widett Circle

THE CONFEDERATE GAMES OF AMERICA

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted July 12, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

Thanks to the Olympics, US flew ‘Stars and Bars’ on world stage

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 1996, Atlanta Games, Boston, Boston 2024, Georgia, Los Angeles Times, Olympics, rebel flag, south carolina, Stars and Bars, United States of America, Zell Miller

BOSTON 2024 PR GAMES: NOT INTERESTED

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted July 6, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical

Before long, it became clear that the event organizers were unwilling to turn any meaningful authority over to members of the public.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical Tagged With: Boston 2024, community meeting, John Fish, lies, Marty Walsh, Olympics, PR, public relations, Steve Pagliuca, USOC

BOSTON 2024: VERSION NUMBER TWO

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted June 30, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Dispatch from the most exhausting week in Olympic history

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston 2024, Boston Olympics, boston university, Columbia Point, harvard, John Fish, mayor Marty Walsh, MIT, Olympics, plans, protesters, Richard Davey, Steve Pagliuca, UMASS-Boston, Version 2.0

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